Adjective passive has 3 senses
- passive, inactive - lacking in energy or will; "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself"- George Meredith
Antonyms: active, activist, activistic, hands-on, proactive
- passive, peaceful - peacefully resistant in response to injustice; "passive resistance"
Antonym: violent (indirect, via nonviolent)
- passive - expressing thatthe subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb; "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
Antonym: active
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Noun passive has 1 sense
- passive voice, passive - the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb; "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice"; "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"
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